Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life.
B.K.S. IYENGARYoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.
More B.K.S. Iyengar Quotes
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People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.
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There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.
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Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
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Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.
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Without the accurate spine movement, one can’t exist dynamically.
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The study of asana is not about mastering posture. It’s about using posture to understand and transform yourself.
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Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.
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From Freedom of the Body comes Freedom of the Mind and then Ultimate Freedom!
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You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Yoga is a way of life; it is an art, a science, a philosophy.
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I don’t stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.
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The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.
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Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Hard work and humility are essential for spiritual sadhana.
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